Europe/ Abetting Crime': Govt Pulls Up X in Meet Over Bomb Threats to Airlines

As the major Indian airline companies, including IndiGo, Vistara and Air India, continue to receive bomb threats for their international and domestic flights for over a week now, a virtual meeting was held by the Joint Secretary of the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeITy) on Tuesday (October 22) evening.

Joint Secretary Sanket S. Bhondve chaired the meeting, which included representatives from Air India, Vistara, the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (CDAC), Meta, and X (formerly Twitter). During the meeting, Bhondve raised concerns about the hoax threats and specifically pulled up X for its handling of the situation and went to the extent of saying that the present situation amounts to X abetting crime. As the major Indian airline companies, including IndiGo, Vistara and Air India, continue to receive bomb threats for their international and domestic flights for over a week now, a virtual meeting was held by the Joint Secretary of the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeITy) on Tuesday (October 22) evening.

Joint Secretary Sanket S. Bhondve chaired the meeting, which included representatives from Air India, Vistara, the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (CDAC), Meta, and X (formerly Twitter). During the meeting, Bhondve raised concerns about the hoax threats and specifically pulled up X for its handling of the situation and went to the extent of saying that the present situation amounts to X abetting crime. As the major Indian airline companies, including IndiGo, Vistara and Air India, continue to receive bomb threats for their international and domestic flights for over a week now, a virtual meeting was held by the Joint Secretary of the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeITy) on Tuesday (October 22) evening.

Joint Secretary Sanket S. Bhondve chaired the meeting, which included representatives from Air India, Vistara, the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (CDAC), Meta, and X (formerly Twitter). During the meeting, Bhondve raised concerns about the hoax threats and specifically pulled up X for its handling of the situation and went to the extent of saying that the present situation amounts to X abetting crime.